1st Edition
An Autopsy of Ethnographic Fieldwork An Introspective Look into Qualitative Research Experiences
This edited volume presents an international collection of fieldwork experiences from every stage of the research process with a view to normalising the process of adaptation, modification, and even failure during the fieldwork process when circumstances interrupt the expected outcomes.
This book aims to address a gap often found in methodology books by including nine full autopsy-like reflection of fieldwork experiences, selected based on researchers’ fields and experience, the diversity of geographical locations and their differing themes. Its chapters record a swathe of experience, from choosing the research themes and hypotheses through to academic presentations and publications, shedding light on an area of experience that is often overlooked.
Documenting experience from anthropologists and sociologists to political scientists and economists, the diversity of the book’s approach and its multidisciplinary focus will interest researchers, scholars, and postgraduate students from a range of subdisciplines and levels of fieldwork experience within research methodology.
1: An Introspective Look into Qualitative Research Experiences
Louis Augustin-Jean
2: To be there for what? Reflections on fieldwork in post-Katrina New Orleans
Nicolas Larchet
3: Mistaken assumptions, minority approach’s gatekeepers and unexpected developments: reflections on a fieldwork about Japanese sake
Nicolas Baumert
4: Mosaic ethnography: Blended lives between online and offline China
David Kurt Herold
5: An Expanding Fieldwork or When a Small Idea Becomes Larger than Anticipated: Studying Chinese New Year Red Packets
Louis Augustin-Jean and Vandana Saxena
6: From localized to globalized markets: change in doing fieldwork in a port city
Arnaud Le Marchand
7: A Case Study of families living “in between” Mexico and the US: discussing epistemologies and methodologies from a transnational perspective.
Javiera Cienfuegos-Illanes
8: The politics of communicating with the Indigenous people in Sarawak
Welyne Jeffrey Jehom
9: How? - Participatory action research with a low-income community
Márton Gosztonyi
10: Alone, in Pairs, as a Team: Reflections on a Mixed-Methods Approach to the Gender of Capital
Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac
11: Fieldwork Perspectives: from Autopsy to Biopsy
Louis Augustin-Jean and Nicolas Larchet
Biography
Louis Augustin-Jean is Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Public Administration and Development Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia.
